Nice Irksome Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup

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And secondly, I’m ever amazed alongside the finished product. Like wow, I did null too this turned out amazing! It’s similar magic.

This past times calendar week I had a craving for chicken tortilla soup. I’m ever inwards the mood for soup, only this calendar week I was inwards the mood for something a lilliputian fleck out of the ordinary too a lilliputian fleck spicy. I was thus excited when I flora this tortilla soup recipe!

And I was fifty-fifty to a greater extent than excited when I realized it had solely 130 calories per cup. That leaves enough of room for fun garnishes on top of the soup similar homemade tortilla strips (recipe equally good below), sour cream too avocado!

Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup

Yield: About vi cups

Calories per serving: 184 calories (calculated calorie content does non include optional ingredients too tortilla strips)

Printable Recipe

Ingredients

For the soup

• 36 ounces (or iv too 1/2 cups) low-sodium chicken broth
• 1 (14.5 ounce) tin forcefulness out petite diced tomatoes
• 3/4 loving cup finely chopped yellowish onion
• 4 teaspoons minced garlic
• 2 too 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
• 1 too 1/2 teaspoon dry reason cumin
• 3/4 teaspoon paprika
• Salt too dark pepper, to taste
• 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts (raw)
• 1 (14.5 ounces) tin forcefulness out dark beans, drained too rinsed
• 1 too 1/2 cups corn (canned or fresh)
• 1/4 loving cup chopped fresh cilantro
• 1 Tablespoon lime juice

For the tortilla strips

• 10 (6-inch) corn tortillas
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoons chili powder
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Additional garnishes (optional)

• Shredded cheddar cheese, diced avocado, diced roma tomatoes, sour cream

Directions

For the soup

1. Pour these ingredients inwards a dull cooker: chicken broth, diced tomatoes, onion, garlic, chili powder, cumin, paprika, too a lilliputian fleck of tabular array salt too pepper.
2. Add chicken breasts (thawed or frozen) too thus encompass alongside lid too hit on LOW rut for vi hours, or until chicken is cooked through. Add an extra lx minutes if the chicken is nonetheless frozen.
3. Remove chicken too shred.
4. Return to dull cooker along alongside dark beans, corn, cilantro too lime juice, too stir. Cook until heated through.
5. Serve warm alongside tortilla strips too other optional ingredients.

For the homemade tortilla strips

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit
2. Cut the tortillas into uniform 1/2-inch strips (I used nutrient shears) too add together to a large bowl.  Add vegetable crude oil too toss to coat.
3. Sprinkle alongside seasonings too toss again.
4. Transfer tortilla strips to baking sheet, trying non to overlap them.
5. Bake inwards oven for 10 minutes, toss around, too provide to oven for an additional v minutes.
6. Add generously to soup!

Soup recipe adapted from Cooking Classy. Tortilla strips recipe adapted from Baked past times Rachel.